That Crush at Kosovo’s Business Door? The Return of U.S. Heroes from the NYT looks at the US government-business revolving door and the difficulty for a government like Kosovo when seemingly every competitor is fronted by a hired gun from the UN-intervention days. Interesting for me with my days in China where endless US and other expatriate businesspeople open up consulting shops touting connections that are exaggerated or past their sell-by date and of little practical use to the dupe client. In Kosovo the dilemma is too many have real cache!

Welcome to Saudi Albany?, also from the NYT is a warning about pitfalls of America’s rush to increased fuel output. I am still haunted by my visit to Bahrain, I have never seen such a despressing place and despoiled environment.

I recently read Tokyo Vice by an American, Jake Adelstein, after I heard a BBC interview of him. He become a crime beat reporter in Japan for the Yomiuri and waded deeply into a tangled web a yakuza, organ-selling at UCLA and human trafficking. His The Yakuza Lobby for Foreign Policy is a peek into the murky world of Japanese polictics.

China National News reports that American, Delta, and United are adding internet to international flights over the next few months. I haven’t heard this elsewhere so need to research. This is one of those inevitable things that I dread on business trips when I take it as my right to unplug on a long flight.

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